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"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Holiday Titles for Youth
Multicultural Booklist
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Holiday Titles for Youth
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Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
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Holidays 2024
Monarch Award Nominees 2022
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
Monarch Award Nominees 2022
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
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When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.--
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Hispanic Heritage Books at Tioga
Hispanic Heritage Titles for Johnson
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Hispanic Heritage Titles for Johnson
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
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AMPL National Hispanic Heritage
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
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Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
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"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
6) Dreamers
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Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
First Grade
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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First Grade
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Wonderbooks!
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Wonderbooks!
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Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
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"Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn't life threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative...
11) Warrior girl
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"A novel in verse about the joys and struggles of a Chicana girl who is a warrior for her name, her history, and her right to choose what she celebrates in life"--
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Yum! Yum! A delicious smell wakes up Mouse on the fifth of May! He follows his nose down the street to a Cinco de Mayo festival. High up in a tree he spies a piñata magnifica. If only Mouse could get just one piece of candy from it. But look out! Cat is on the prowl. He is planning a fiesta of his own, and Mouse is on the menu. Sprinkled with a few words in Spanish, this Cinco de Mayo adventure is a great read-aloud for pre-school and kindergartners...
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2023 Eisenhower Staff Favorites
2024 Youth Media Award Winners
August Buzzworthy Books Kids
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2024 Youth Media Award Winners
August Buzzworthy Books Kids
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"Pedro Martin has grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir"--
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Comeback kids volume 4
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Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
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"Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams?"--
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While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomás finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library, which has a significant impact on the boy when he grows up to be Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside.
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"Había una vez . . . There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery...
20) Bouncing back
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Orphaned thirteen year-old Carlos learns what it truly means to be a teammate when he must help save his new wheelchair basketball team's gym from destruction.
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